Kwara Smart City Project: 23 Communities Reject Acquisition Of Farmlands

Date: 2024-03-29

No fewer than 23 communities in the Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State have rejected plan by the state government to acquire their lands for the Smart City project.

The communities, under the aegis of Akanbi Wards 1 and 2, had claimed that they received a letter dated March 1st this year notifying them of the state government's intention to revoke/acquire the land for public use.

Addressing journalists on Friday in Fufu, headquarters of the Ilorin South Local Government Council, the Chairman of Akanbi Ward 1 and 2, Azeez Omolola, said: “The people of the 23 villages at home and abroad are expressing and registering our bitter feeling, sadness and deep sorrow over plan by the state government to acquire/revoke our land being used for farming for the establishment of Ilorin Smart City project when hunger is ravaging the people.”

Mr Omolola lamented that the planned revocation/acquisition of their land would mean sacking the people from their farmlands, thereby throwing them into acute and perpetual hunger.

He appealed to the state government for the immediate suspension of all plans to forcefully revoke/acquire their land for private use under the guise of public interest, urging the constitution of a panel of inquiry to look into the circumstances which had led to that decision that completely left them out on a matter that borders on their lives and livelihoods.

Besides, the spokesperson for the Ward stressed the need for the panel of inquiry to also examine all alternative ways to avoid destruction and grabbing of their communities' ancestral land, forests and farmlands.

He further counselled the state government to “halt and reverse the implementation of the policy and follow that by inviting all stakeholders in the communities for a meeting; constituting a special committee to look into the matter raised by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in the notification letter as regards the issue of public interest.

“Recognise and allow our rights as indigenous people as enacted in national and international laws to be respected and preserved.”

Omolola urged the state government to “carry out a thorough and transparent review of the adverse ecological, socio-cultural, economic, financial and reputational impacts of the proposed Smart City before it precipitates a man-made disaster for our communities and the state at large.”

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

AbdulRahman Saad     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Shururat Olatinwo     Amuda Aluko     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Maigidasanma     Sulyman Buhari     Age AbdulKareem     Public Holiday     Ajeigbe     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Atiku     Kehinde Boyede     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Sabi     Akanbi-Oke     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Senate President     National Information Technology Development Agency     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Kwara Liberation Group     Isapa     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Aso Ofi     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Yemi Osinbajo     Ejidongari     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Muritala Awodun     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Siraj Oyewale     Bola Sagaya     GRA     Aminu Ado Bayero     Omoniyi     General Hospital, Ilorin     Laboratory-to-Product     Clara Nwachukwu     Arik     Baba Isale     Oluronke Adeyemi     Egbewole     Daud Adeshola     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     FOMWAN     Biliaminu Aliu     Folaranmi Aro     Saliu Oluwole     Sheikh Ariyibi     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Lawal Olohungbebe     Bank Of Industry     Aliyu U. Tilde     Sola Saraki University     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Muhammadu Gobir     NSCIA     Kwara 2023     Ibrahim Taiwo     Dorcas Afeniforo     Nigeria Computer Society     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Elerin Of Adanla     Rihanat Ajia     Sabi     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Lanre Badmas     Obuh     Onilu     Justina Oha     Omotoso     Prince Bola Ajibola     New Nigeria People’s Party     Offorjama    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Osinbajo     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     George Innih     Otoge     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Kwara Polytechnic     Otuka     Coronavirus     Doyin Group     Kwara State Television     Kamaldeen Gambari     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Nurudeen Mohammed     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Abdulwahab Oba     Yomi Ogunsola     Lanre Badmus     Joseph Offorjama     Okasanmi Ajayi     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Agor     Kwabes     Oba Abu     Ekweremadu     Micheal Imoudu     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Public Holiday     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Kwarareports     Akanbi-Oke     Olupako     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Centre For Digital Economy     Kwara State Polytechnic     Frootify     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Kwara NIPR     Falokun-Oja     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Ronke Adeyemi     Elese Of Igbaja     Yoruba     Shehu Jimoh     Roheemat Hammed     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Oke-Ode     A.O. Belgore     Post-utme     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Eghe Igbinehin     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Asa LGEA School     Nnazua     Emir Of Ilorin     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Salihu Ajia     SUBEB     Yusuf Mubarak     Students Union Government     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Kwara State University Of Education     KWASIEC     Tuesday Assayomo     Oba Of Jebba     Kunle Suleiman     Ahman Pategi     Temi Kolawole     Wahab Egbewole     Seed Technologies     Balikis Jawondo